Book
Indian tribes of the upper Missouri
Government Printing Office • Washington D.c. • Published In 1930 • Pages:
By: Denig, Edwin Thompson, Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph presents a general ethnography of traditional Assiniboine society as it existed in the mid 1850s. The author lived with the Indians for an entire year, (probably around 1854), gathering information and confirming the data obtained from his informants. A wide range of subject coverage is presented in this work, but some of the major topics discussed are: history, geography, fauna, pictographs, astronomy, medicine, social and political organization, warfare, property, religion, courtship and marriage, hunting, dancing and amusements, and games and gambling. Denig notes that much of the ethnographic data on the Assiniboine contained herein also applies to the Sioux, Arikara, Mandan, Gros Ventres, Cree, and Blackfoot. These groups are designated by the author as 'prairie roving or wild tribes', reflecting the general attitude of his day regarding native American populations.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Assiniboine
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1850s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late eighteenth- mid nineteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Missouri River area, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edwin Thompson Denig., with notes and biographical sketch by J.N.B. Hewitt
- From the manuscript of an undated report made, probably, about 1854: it 'concerned the native tribes of the upper Missouri river, to wit, the Arikara, the Mandan, the Sioux, the Gros Ventres, the Cree, the Crows, the Assiniboin, and the Blackfeet … although the Assiniboin seem to have been the chief subjects of his observations.' cf. p. 377, 379
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-628)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- ca 31000079
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Assiniboine Indians